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The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity. One of the biggest and most basic questions in physics involves the number of ways to...
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
...Perlmutter of the Supernova Cosmology Project and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fast forward to July of...
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
...a scientific perspective. It’s still a very cool area of physics for inspiring interesting math and making connections to all kinds of mathematics that aren’t typically considered applied. But from...
Does Form Really Shape Function?
...whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been...
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...and physics at Cambridge, and now between biology, mathematics and physics at Harvard. One positive aspect of being between disciplines is being left alone to find my own way through...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...biology with John Tyler Bonner. RATCLIFF: That’s really cool. STROGATZ: He was a very sweet man too. And you know what else, he had a lot of interest in physics,...
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories
...1980s. Now few areas of physics remain untouched by Bethe’s nearly century-old insight. “Its importance has continued growing to this day,” said Charlotte Kristjansen, a professor at the Niels Bohr...
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
...hundred or so years. But now we may be ready to eliminate at least one set of proposals. Recent experiments have mobilized the extreme sensitivity of particle physics instruments to...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...where to look for the most elusive theory in physics: one that unites quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity that describes gravity. And, for good measure, it would...